2024 Budget In Brief

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WATER PROJECT TO IMPROVE SYSTEM THAT BRINGS LAKE MICHIGAN WATER TO ORLAND PARK Maintaining the Village’s water and sewer infrastructure is one of the Village’s most important responsibilities. To ensure the availability and reliability of these services, the Village continues to make substantial investments in its infrastructure by improving the quality and robustness of the Village’s public water supply and sewer systems. The Oak Lawn RegionalWater System (RWS) was formed in 1973, and the Village of Orland Park joined the RWS soon thereafter.The RWS stores and distributes treated Lake Michigan water purchased from the City of Chicago, and redistributes through the RWS to municipal customer communities, including the Village of Orland Park. In 2010, the RWS began major upgrades. The first step was to develop a Master Plan while I ydrologically N odeling the system. In 2012, based on the findings of the Master Plan and results of the modeling, the RWS began updating infrastructure, installing back-up power supply, and constructing additional pump stations, as well as a number of other modernization improvements. In 2014, the RWS began the design and construction of a mile, inch diameter looped water main to supplement the existing inch diameter water main. When these improvements are complete, the system’s current capacity of million gallons per day will be increased to NJMMJPO HBMMPOT

per day. In addition to meeting the redundancy, reliability, and capacity needs for customer communities through and beyond the 2030 planning horizon, these improvements will also reduce the amount of energy used to pump water through the system by 15%. While a number of cities across the region are running out of water and face an increasingly urgent deadline to solve their water problems, the Village of Orland Park has made, and is continuously making, critical investments to ensure availability of safe and clean drinking water for decades to come. In 2022 and in early 2023, the J nch pipe was installed in the Forest Preserve west of Harlem Avenue, and was brought up to the intersection of 73rd Avenue and Wheeler Dr. A J nch water line will be installed by Benchmark Construction in late 2023 and continue thru early 2024. Construction has started on this line at the Village’s Main Pump Station. This line will connect the Village’s Main Pumping Station to the inch pipe.

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VILLAGE OF ORLAND PARK ʴ FISCAL YEAR 2024 BUDGET IN BRIEF